Coverage: Jeffery Trevino case

The injuries to his wife, Kira Steger, rose only to the level of a third-degree assault, the lawyer argues in...
Updated Oct. 17, 2013

Jeffery Trevino, 39, was convicted in October of one count of second-degree murder in Kira Steger’s death. Steger, 30, was last seen on Feb. 21 and her body was recovered on May 8 from the Mississippi River.

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Jeffery Trevino was found guilty of one count of second-degree murder Wednesday in the death of his wife, Kira Steger. Jay Steger stood with his daughter, Keri Anne Steger, and Ramsey County Victim Adovocate Jennifer Mallinger, from left, while Marcie Steger spoke to the news media.

Jeffery Trevino resisted friends’ help finding his missing wife and bristled at social media efforts he thought were going “viral” and were “blown out of proportion,” witnesses testified Friday, the second day of testimony.

Authorities returned to Keller Lake on Tuesday afternoon to look for any sign of Kira Trevino of St. Paul. A boat from the Ramsey County sheriff’s water patrol was used for the first time in the search.

As open water started to show on Keller Lake in Maplewood on Saturday, about two dozen volunteers and family members navigated ice that was dangerously thin in spots as they continued the search for Kira Trevino’s body.

Sheriff’s officers from Ramsey County drilled a series of holes in Keller Lake on Tuesday afternoon in preparation for another search with cadaver dogs in the case of missing St. Paul resident Kira Trevino.

Ramsey County Water Patrol divers searched a shallow creek near Keller Lake in Maplewood on Monday, looking for clues and evidence in the disappearance of Kira Trevino. The lake is about 2 miles from the home she shared with her husband.

The Ramsey County Sheriff's water patrol waded through open water Monday afternoon in a creek at the southern end of Keller Lake in Maplewood, poking the creek bottom and under ice shelves with long sticks, after searchers turned up items of interest in the search for Kira Trevino on Sunday.

Police collected several items found by volunteer searchers Sunday at Keller Lake in Maplewood, where pieces of critical evidence had already been discovered in the disappearance and presumed death of Kira Trevino.

St. Paul Police Sgt. Paul Paulos said Friday that a special tip-line number — 651-560-3277 — had been set up as police look for clues from the public into the disappearance and presumed murder of Kira Trevino, 30, shown in the top poster with her husband, Jeffery Trevino, 39, who is in jail in lieu of $1 million bail.

Keri Anne Steger fought back tears as she spoke about her sister, Kira Trevino, Wednesday at a hotel in Bloomington. Kira’s car was found in a remote parking area at the Mall of America. Trevino’s mother, Marcie Steger, is at right; her cousin, Cassie Guyton, is at left.